1. CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Jack O’Connell, State Superintendent of Public Instruction State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG) Bidder’s Webinar April 19, 2010 California Department of Education Special Education Division Janet Canning-Digmon, Consultant jcanning@cde.ca.gov 916-327-4217

2. JACK O’CONNELL State Superintendent of Public Instruction Outcome: Collaboration with General Education Project Design: The extent to which the proposed project will establish linkages with other appropriate agencies and organizations providing services to the target population 2

3. JACK O’CONNELL State Superintendent of Public Instruction A General Principle Approach WHY – Legislative intent, educational research-based behind competition WHAT – Common Tenets Across Our Main Efforts HOW – Personal Research and Relationship Building WHEN WHERE 3

4. JACK O’CONNELL State Superintendent of Public Instruction Collaborations With the Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title Programs Title IV Safe and Drug-Free Schools Required that districts, every 2 years, obtain an anonymous student survey –California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) –Environments conductive to learning, school climate, safety, harassment California added a teacher survey – California School Climate Survey Special Education paid to expand the survey http://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/se/climatesurvey.asp http://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/se/climatesurvey.asp Closing the Achievement Gap Initiative 4

5. JACK O’CONNELL State Superintendent of Public Instruction Workbook for Improving School Climate & Closing the Achievement Gap Collaborative Project Title IV Save and Drug-Free Schools – Workbook to Use Data Purpose: How to use CSCS data constructively for developing better schools and helping students to succeed academically. http://www.wested.org/chks/pdf/CTAGWorkbook- complete.pdf 5

6. JACK O’CONNELL State Superintendent of Public Instruction Key Strategies for Making it Work Focus on Why, What & How –WHY – Legislative intent, educational research- based –WHAT – Common Tenets Across Efforts –HOW – Personal Research and Relationship Building Strategies to Accomplish Collaboration –Research Department Contacts/Leads & Personal Contact –Stakeholder Group for SPDG Include the possible collaborative partners –Write efforts into the State Performance Plan (SPP) –Leverage existing Department contracts 6